So, I just got back from a brief trip to Italy last night (I know, chiiiiic!) and I'm a little discombobulated and loopy but I wanted to say hi and let everybody know that I still love them and I'm sorry for being gone and inducing nail-biting, hallway pacing, and obsessive refresh button pressing on the BabyCakes blog to see if I would show up. I know it was hard but you can all relax because I'm back and running around the bakery and fussing around like freak that I am again. Yay for all of us! Did I mention I'm sort of jet-laggy crazy right now?
Anyhow.
I won't bore you with descriptions of how good the food was but I will tell you that spending a dairy-less, wheat-less vacation in Italy was so effortless and DELICIOUS. There was even a place in Florence that offered a gluten-free menu (you can punch me in the face because I didn't take down the name but I'm sure it's google-able!) and this restaurant called Gigli in Lucca that had spelt pasta if you are not celiac or allergic to gluten. Even if you randomly walk into a restaurant it's easy to find something completely mind blowing that is vegan and gluten-free as-is and it will probably be the best thing you ever put in your mouth. I feel pretty embarrassed for not pulling together a food guide for any of you traveling to Italy but the idea is to stumble around and happen upon that perfect trattoria down a hidden side-street and eat your face off, right? So my point is (if I can figure out what my point is) is that you won't have trouble keeping on your gluten-free, vegan game while you travel in Italy. Oh! Also. Most good non-touristy places don't throw bread crumbs in stuff like many Americans do so that frees you up quite a bit! Oh, but be sure to double check with the kitchen to make sure, of course.
I embarrassingly have no pictures of beautiful rustic alleys with laundry draping out of shuttered windows or snaps of the Duomo to leave you with, but I'm sure you've all got plenty of postcards with that sort of deal hanging up somewhere or nestled in some book already, right? What I do have, are a collection of cool ice cream and pizza place signs I took along the way, so I've posted my favorite up there on the left. I mean, it's a ghost holding a pizza in one hand and a piece of pie in the other? Does it get any better than that? We are all clearly in need of a lesson in logo-making from these people.
I would say "talk to you soon!" in Italian to close this post here but that would be pretty annoying, right?
Bye for now!
